{"id":334,"date":"2018-10-01T08:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/?p=334"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T08:33:47","slug":"september-in-aberystwyth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/september-in-aberystwyth\/","title":{"rendered":"September in Aberystwyth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Hello, my name is Sue Fish and I\u2019m the Senior Clinical Lecturer for the CARER Programme based in Aberystwyth. I\u2019m also a GP in Borth Surgery 9 miles north of Aberystwyth and I have one of the 7 CARER students, Abishek based with me. I grew up in Cardiff and trained in London but love living and working as a GP in Mid Wales and so I\u2019m really happy that Cardiff Medical School has started the CARER Programme so that Medical Students can experience the fantastic learning opportunities that General Practice in more rural areas of Wales can offer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I can\u2019t believe that the first 4 weeks of the placement have already gone. It\u2019s been busy, the students have had to settle in to their new accommodation, get to know their GP Tutors and the wider primary care teams, find their way around Aberystwyth and the University and been introduced to the consultants at Bronglais Hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2018\/10\/CARER-Students-Aber-Uni-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2018\/10\/CARER-Students-Aber-Uni-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2018\/10\/CARER-Students-Aber-Uni-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2018\/10\/CARER-Students-Aber-Uni-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/carer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/555\/2018\/10\/CARER-Students-Aber-Uni.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We have access to excellent teaching facilities in Aberystwyth University where the students and I meet for teaching every Thursday and Friday after spending the first half of their week with their GP practices. The teaching is a mix of viewing panopto recorded lectures, tutorials delivered by tutors from Cardiff in person and using blackboard collaborate and tutorials delivered by myself and other locally based clinicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">All of my colleagues have been extremely pleased to welcome the students to their surgeries and have found lots of different opportunities for teaching. The patients aren\u2019t used to seeing medical students and so they are also very happy to discuss their conditions and really value the opportunity to contribute to training the next generation of doctors. There are a mix of GP practices, some based in Aberystwyth, some more rural, some larger and some smaller and three of them are attached to community hospitals. So there is plenty of different learning experiences for everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Aberystwyth University and Bronglais Hospital have already invited the students to lectures, this one was on diabetes and was well attended by academics, health care professionals and patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I\u2019ll be coming to Cardiff on 19<sup>th<\/sup> October with some of the students to talk about the first 6 weeks of the CARER Programme in Aberystwyth and you\u2019ll hear about what else the students have been doing since they arrived directly from them, via this blog over the next few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hello, my name is Sue Fish and I\u2019m the Senior Clinical Lecturer for the CARER Programme based in Aberystwyth. 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